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  2. Music and emotion - Wikipedia

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    Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, c. 1626. Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music.The field, a branch of music psychology, covers numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical ...

  3. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...

  4. Rothenberg propriety - Wikipedia

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    Gerald J. Balzano, The Pitch Set as a Level of Description for Studying Musical Pitch Perception, in Music, Mind, and Brain, Manfred Clynes, ed., Plenum Press, 1982 David Rothenberg, A Model for Pattern Perception with Musical Applications Part I: Pitch Structures as order-preserving maps , Mathematical Systems Theory 11 (1978) 199–234 [1]

  5. Relaxation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The practice encourages a meditative state that reduces mental tension and calms the mind. It also helps lower stress hormones, leading to a sense of inner peace and relaxation. Cleveland Clinic references a study by Wiley Online Library stating that after 12 weeks of practicing Tai Chi, it reduced “healthy but stressed” people’s anxiety ...

  6. Psychology of music - Wikipedia

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    The psychology of music, or music psychology, is a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology.It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience, including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.

  7. List of music theorists - Wikipedia

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    The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007) Max (software), Pure Data: Philip Ewell: born 1966 Music Theory and the White Racial Frame (2020) Race in music, Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop [218] Ellie Hisama: Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2007)

  8. Contrapuntal motion - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, contrapuntal motion is the general movement of two or more melodic lines with respect to each other. [1] In traditional four-part harmony, it is important that lines maintain their independence, an effect which can be achieved by the judicious use of the four types of contrapuntal motion: parallel motion, similar motion, contrary motion, and oblique motion.

  9. Voicing (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, voicing refers to two closely related concepts: How a musician or group distributes, or spaces, notes and chords on one or more instruments; The simultaneous vertical placement of notes in relation to each other; [5] this relates to the concepts of spacing and doubling